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BELLVILLE L. RANDALL, 0F ROXBRY, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 72,67 9, dated December 24, 1867'.v i

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TO ALL PERSONS T0 WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME;

Be it known `that I, BELLVILLE L. RANDALL, of Roxbury, in the county ofNorfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and 1isefulImprovement in Railway-Carriages and do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which-f- Figure 1 is top view,and l Figure 2 aside elevation of the platform and wheels of a carriage, providedy withmy invention.

In carrying out my said invention, I have combined with the truck-frameor the body of the carriage, and each of its wheels, offender, to extendabout each wheel, o'r down in front and in rear of the tread thereof',in order to prevent a person from becoming accidentally caught betweenthe wheel and the rail, and injured by them.l I have also supported thebody or platform of the carriage on the wheel-bearings or boxes, or thetruckframe carrying ,the same, by means of novel combination orarrangement of springs and levers, whereby the downward pressure of thecarriage-body and its load is employed to prevent the platform frombecoming sagged or bent down at or near either ofits ends.

. In the drawings, A denotes the'platform o r base-frame of arailway-carriage body, B is the truck-frame, i having the wheeljournal-bearings or housing a a, connected with it in the ordinarymanner. C C are the wheels. From each housing, the fender D extendshorizontally in opposite directions alongside of the wheel,

and embraces the tread or circumference of the wheel on opposite sides,and thence projects downward in front and rear of the wheel, the samebeing as exhibited in the drawings. The platform is supported on thetruck-frame by two levers E F, and three springs, G H I, arangedtogether, and extended from each of the housings of the wheel-journals,in manner as shown in iig. 2, the longer of the two levers having itsfulcrum suspended from the platform, as represented at K. The two leversE F, and tpe single spring I, may be employed without the addition ofeither or both the springs G. H, but I prefer to use the said auxiliarysprings, as, by so doing, theh distribution 'of the weight on thesprings is made-to much better advantage, and with less liability ofinjury to them. The two levers, by their conjoint action, tend toelevilte or curve the platform upward at its ends, and thus prevent thesagging or bending of it, which results or is apt to follow when asingle lever is used over such 'wheel-bearing, and so applied at itsouter arm, toa spring placed on or within the platform, as to pulldownward the spring when contracting it. l

Having thu's described my invention, what I claim is as follows 1. Iclaim the combina-tion as well as the arrangement of the levers E F andthe springs I with the platform i and truck-frame. 2. I also claim thecombination as well as the arrangement ofthe levers E F, the .springs I,and the springs G, with the platform and truck-frame. v

3. I also claim, thocombination as well as the arrangement of the leversE F, the springs I, and the springs H, withithe platform andtruck-frame.

4. I also claim the combination as well as the arrangement of the leversE Fand the springs I G H, lwith the platform and the truck-frame.

BELLVILLE L. RANDALL.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, Gao. H. ANDREWS.

